If you live in Forest Lake, have a house valued at $100,000, and are paying a maximum school district levy of $1,633 per student, your cost is $364. If you live in Hopkins, same home value, same levy, your cost is $153. The state formula that allows this disparity has not been adjusted since 1993. [...Read More

A free parent leadership boot camp to teach parents how to affect change for public schools will be offered Saturday at Forest Lake High School by Citizens United for Public Schools 831. The CUPS 831 program is set from 9 a.m. to noon. The program will be led by the statewide organization, Parents U...Read More

Citizens United for Public Schools 831, a new group to support public education in Minnesota and to share facts on how the state school funding system works, will have its first public outreach on Tuesday, Jan. 17. CUPS 831 aspires to engage and join the citizens of the local district to advocate fo...Read More